First Blog!

Well this is my very first blog I have ever done!! So who know how its gonna go haha!
I guess I just love reading other peoples blogs and thought its such a great way for us all to share about things in our lives that matter to us and even share inspirations and ideas to help each other out in this journey of life!

I guess I'll share a little bit about our little family with a quick snapshot of the years gone by..... I am sorry if its a bit long...but so much has happened I couldn't shorten it lol!

Greg and I are have been married almost 10 years (in April) and soooo much has happened in that 10 years I am truly amazed at the goodness of God on our lives!

We started out in a caravan when we first got married and lived there 9 months saving up for our first home for both of us... a quaint little fibro 3 bed home in town! It was here that we really got to know each other and develop our marriage into the beautiful thing it is now.... Aimee came along 2 and 1/2 years into our time there and we truly loved being parents.... I thought it was the best thing ever to happen to me.... being a full time mum was just the best!!

Our block on Polwarth Pde...we got the shed up pretty quick...

We decided to sell when Aimee was 12 months as the market in Gero had just skyrocketed....so we put up the FOR SALE sign sadly and our little house sold in just 4 days and bringing with it a large profit! We found a block of land 10 mins out of town near the airport, Gregs dream of 2 and half acres!! But the titles for the land took another year to come through so we moved in with Gregs best friend Brett Jackson up in Greenough where we paid no rent & just supplied Brett with good tucker ;) This made it incredibly easy to save for our future house we were going to build..... I really struggled living so far out of town tho and up 2 kms of dirt road, I rarely had any visitors and Aimee and I virtually lived in town, trying to get away from the place! The titles dragged on and then eventually came through.... so we organised for the house to start when took ages!!
Meanwhile I'd got pregnant with Jayden and 6 weeks before I was due we had a man knock on the door saying we had 2 weeks to move out of the place cos they were going to be using the house for further land developments in the area! Great now I had to get the house packed and look for somewhere to live all the while being 34 weeks pregnant! Not a nice time!

We found a unit just in time for Jayden to come into the world!

 I felt pretty overwhelmed having 2 kids...it was quite an adjustment for me. The place where we were renting was the hottest house I have ever lived in so poor lil Jay sweltered through the summer while we waited (now 2 years from buying the block) for our new house to be finished!

In July 07 we finally could move into our beautiful new little home!
 It was bliss and the next few years we did the house up outside. Meanwhile I had started some casual work at McCafe and Greg had gotton a new job working for the Water Corp which more than doubled our income - praise Jesus! Aimee had started kindy in 08 and life was just going sweet!

We decided that our little house would not be big enough much longer (it was a 3x1) & decided to take the plunge (a big risk really) and try and sell and build again.... so that we were set up for the future. Within 3 months our house sold! We hadn't even thought about exactly where we were going to build next but my dream was always to live in Strathalbyn near the kids school and Mum & Dad! Greg loved the large lot of land but it was not really very practical to maintain and the 10 mins out of town was getting to us! (us Country folk haha!). We looked and looked but all the blocks in Strath were always $20 grand out of our reach! Annoying.... we knew Mum and Dad had a block for sale in Strath so we eventually had the guts to ask them if we could buy it for a discounted amount and they agreed!! Yay it was the perfect spot, 2 mins walk to the school and in such a lovely position near the school!! We were excited!

Our land in Strath...ready to build on!

Doing our house plans was so much fun...I guess I designed the whole plan myself knowing exactly how I wanted the house set up! Thanks to Jess picking the colours/tiles etc. made it so much easier!!

We found a rental just in time in Spalding, not far from our block in Strath which was good..... the rent was so high tho making us really have to knuckle down with our budget!
While we there I fell preggers again.....which was such a shock cos we were only going to have 2 kids!! The way it happened was such a God thing I truly believe it was not an accident...God ordained this baby!! So luckily I had time to change the "office" into more of a baby room...

And thats where we are now...our home is just beautiful and I feel so blessed to be living here with such a bright future ahead of us!!

Gods blessings and timing of how things have happened truly amaze me..... 10 years ago I never would've thought I'd be living in such a lovely house in my dream place in Gero with almost 3 beautiful perfect kids! Wow, a testimony of his goodness!!

So thats us and where we're at in a nutshell!

Hopefully I will be able to blog every now and then about something interesting!

 

Thanks for reading!!